Questions tagged [editor]
For questions about the standard editor for Stack Exchange posts, which supports a live preview of Markdown syntax.
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Bug with embedded quotes in links
Is this a known bug?
A link with quotes is visible at preview time, but not visible when actually posted.
The above "link" word at preview time points to this URL (which, as a line on its own at ...
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Preserve indent across lines in the editor
One of the limitations of the text editor is encountered when working with text that includes indentation.
For instance, if I type in 4 spaces to start a new level of indent, I have to type in 4 ...
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Auto focus question title input while opening a new question
After pressing the button "new question" the page is redirected and there are two input fields:
Title
Body
The question opener is probably willing to write a title first.
I think that the title ...
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Ctrl+K doesn't work for indented lines
Below code is indented with 2 .
<- no-break space
<- no-break space
I wrote this code block manually, i.e. prepend 4 spaces to each line.
Why don't I use Ctrl+K? Because it didn'...
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Image dialog hides incorrectly while editing a post inline
There is a bug with escape when canceling the image uploader when editing a post inline (i.e. with the 2k edit posts privilege)
Browser: Chrome 50.0.xxx, did not test other browsers
Steps:
Edit any ...
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Suggested edits do not save in tag wiki edits
If you make a suggested edit to a question or an answer, and then you decide that it needs further editing, the edit box saves what you had already suggested, even if it hasn't been approved yet. That ...
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Auto-lookup of page/site title for external links posted in WMD
Most of the times, when I paste a link I do:
Click on the "link" icon at the toolbar
Paste the link
Enter the link title
While step three is not too problematic I would like to skip it.
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Errant feature: WMD links to questions
Say I wanted to credit someone's answer in my own answer. I'd normally write something like this:
Using what [Dlamblin][1] [said][2], I think the code would look like this:
[1]: https://meta....
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Syntax highlighting doesn't work in the preview when asking a new question
Actual Post:
Preview while writing the question:
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Is there a way to embed a custom font in Pagedown?
I need to paste in some sample code. However, the code needs a font that has the specific unicode characters in it. The default font that Stackoverflow is using does not support the characters (APL ...
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Problem with BlockQuotes in Answer Editor
I was editing an answer on a StackExchange site ATTiny2313 ISR stack usage and noticed a problem with the Blockquote button in the WMD editor, as follows:
Paste in a large chunk of text (a ...
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Superscript / subscript editor buttons on mobile site [duplicate]
I think, at least on certain sites (Chemistry in particular), the mobile editor could really benefit from superscript and subscript buttons.
Using Chemistry as an example, superscript and subscript ...
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Should the "Enable keyboard shortcuts" user setting disable ALL custom keyboard shortcuts on a site?
Since July 2009 the community is asking for a way to disable the editor keyboard shortcuts.
Since September 2010 many people are asking to disable comment submitting on Enter.
Since July 2014 ...
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Placeholder text for "Insert hyperlink" is still HTTP, when editing a tag wiki [duplicate]
(This might be something to do with old/new editors, but I'm not sure.)
The screenshot below:
Shows that the placeholder text for inserting a hyperlink into a tag wiki is still http://, and not https:...
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Pasting hyperlink as text with leading space leads needlessly to broken links [duplicate]
When inserting a link via the SE editor it happens a lot that a broken link is generated.
This seems to happen because a link is selected as text and pasted into the box.
The result is a generated ...
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Paste without formatting in editor
If I copy some rich text onto my clipboard and paste it into a question (or answer), this happens:
This is pretty annoying if you ever want to copy some text into a question. A workaround I’ve been ...
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Tags are not centered in new post form [duplicate]
Saw this just now at Meta.SO and here when writing a new post:
This bug doesn't show when editing an existing post instead.
Firefox 62 win64.
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First word won't save in post or edit [duplicate]
I recently wrote this answer on Stack Overflow. In order to be nice and in the spirit of our push toward welcoming new users, I began my answer with
Hi, and welcome to Stack Overflow!
When I hit ...
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Comment editor appears multiple times [duplicate]
when I click various times on "edit" next to my comment, the editor appears multiple times (the second time there are two editors in the first box and another one at the bottom and the third time ...
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Missing commands or icons on different Stack Exchange sites
I was trying to post some questions in the Finance Stack Exchange and it was missing some icons to edit the question, like bold, italics, etc. I thought it was normal, but I when I tried to post a ...
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Make all tooltips for tool buttons in editor uniform
Each tool button for an edit window which changes text body contains a tooltip with a keyboard hotkey. In all cases except "snippet" hotkey format is Ctrl + Letter, for the snippet button - (minus) is ...
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Edit a post in mobile web immediately displays suggested tags
Post editor in mobile web immediately displays suggested tags which names contain a substring of the first already set tag:
On MSE it only happens with questions tagged bug. On another sites ...
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Hyperlink button adds unwanted / unneeded backslashes to escape brackets
I have the following code snippet: List<T[]>, which is an ordinary Java type using array syntax.
Now, I want to put a link on that snippet, so I'm using the hyperlink button (), or Ctrl+L from ...
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Using hyperlink shortcut Ctrl+l causes loss of up/down arrow keys [duplicate]
After using ctrl+l to link highlighted text when writing and answer or question, I can no longer use my up/down keys unless I leave the page and come back to it.
I am having an issue in FireFox 47.0....
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data: image crashes browser
It seems that the image insertion tool (ctrl-G in the editor) can't handle an inline image — i.e., one whose src property uses the "data:" protocol. It just totally locked up the browser.
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Text substitutions not working [closed]
It's common that I post an answer that includes keyboard formatting.
So if I type <kbd>K</kbd><kbd>E</kbd><kbd>Y</kbd><kbd>S</kbd> it shows up in the ...
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Editor feature renumbers link tags, making diffs in long posts hard to read
It is known that the javascript-based post editor sometimes renumbers all Markdown format link identifiers in a post, including identifiers of links that aren't even touched in an edit.
This causes ...
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Large image file upload is missing proper error handling
I was trying to upload this image when asking an android-app question, but I got the following message when pressing "Add picture" after selecting "From my computer" and browsing the file (you need to ...
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Issue caused by subtle misuse of the add link button
In the add link dialog, entering the code
http://example.com/ "optional title"
...gives the link enter link description here, as expected, to example.com.
However, using a trailing dot, like
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Question editor is gone on Stack Overflow (IE9)
The question WYSIWYG editor has stop working for me in IE9 (32 and 64 bit versions).
It was working earlier this week, and I don't recall installing anything special since then.
The WYSIWYG editor ...
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Add editor tag [badge:...] [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Add badges to Markdown?
We already have editor tag [tag:] to insert tags to editted text: some-tag
For some posts here on Meta it would be nice and useful to have editor tag ...
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WMD editor bug: CTRL-* and CTRL-SHIFT-* shortcuts collide [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Ctrl+Shift, Ctrl+Alt keyboard shortcuts in the WMD editor
Closely related to this bug (CTRL-[Letter] and CTRL-ALT-[Letter] collide), there is another small glitch to fix in ...
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words contained in [] in questions and answers (not tags) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Markdown preview does not support link definition names that are the same as Array function names
There seems to be something weird with the word "constructor" between ...
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There is an issue in the Stack Overflow editor
So if you write
#include < iostream> it will display iostream, BUT if you drop the space after "<" it simply ignore what ever you write after that.
I don't know if others are also facing ...
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(tag:tagname) links to Stack Overflow tags, not Meta Stack Overflow tags [duplicate]
Right now, I can use [tag:tagname] almost anywhere on Stack Overflow to link to a tag. On Meta Stack Overflow, I can use the same markup, but it still links to tags on Stack Overflow, and not Meta ...
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Editor cursor positioning bug
I've noticed a recent change (I think) in the way the editor behaves, for me at least.
There seems to be some delay after I hit the enter key before I can move the cursor back to the end of the ...
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Strange WMD bug
If you type the following characters into the WMD editor: [some] by themselves without wrapping them in backticks, firebug throws the following error:
K.replace is not a function
The odd thing is ...
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What are text format magics on Stack Overflow?
There are some text formats which help us to provide more readable answers, comments, and questions, but I learned them by editing other answers. I don't know where the source is, for example:
code ...
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How do I effectively post a long list of links?
In this answer I really wanted to post 500 hyperlinks.
Now I know, this is an edge case,
but....
If I have a code block or a pre block
I get a nice scrolly bar on the right hand side
when
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Is it ok to use Code Sample function in editor just for highlight? [duplicate]
Nowadays I see lots of questions using code sample display for highlight, not really on code samples.
This is an example how it looks.
I see comments about they are ok to use, and some other ...
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An Editor bug that I'm really getting tired of
I'm using Chrome 14.0.835.186 on MacOS 10.6.8, and I frequently have trouble editing my posts because the editor, when loading the post content, has a tendency to omit things.
Here is a recent ...
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Code formating without having to spacebar x4 before each line
Why can't I just enclose code in code /code tags?
There must be something simpler than spacebar x4 in front of each line, no?
#!/bin/bash
echo ************************BEGIN LOG**********************...
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Links with quotation marks are broken
I'm not sure whether this is a valid (per spec) url or not, but this url
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9230708&st=samsung+lcd+32"&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=...
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Stackoverflow alignment error [closed]
Is it mistake by stackoverflow or there is bug in my browser
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Let the user choose what the TAB does in the editor with caveats
I've read in the meta the discussion on why it's not a good idea to Change 'TAB' keyboard press functionality when typing a question so that it insert spaces instead of changing focus. The ...
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ajax loading on edit toolbar causing seriously annoying behaviour
OK so today I started to hit edit on peoples questions and I notice:
The toolbar on the top is first disabled.
Then the preloader (same one that shows for the tags etc) shows up.
Then
The page kinda ...
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33 Rep and Editor Badge?
How is it that someone with 33 rep can have the editor badge?
EDIT: My apologies. As soon as I posted this I got that badge and realized it didn't mean only other peoples posts.
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Are editors notified of @comment-replies? [duplicate]
According to this bug, they should be but it's buggy.
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How to set a no break in keyboard shortcuts?
I'm wondering if it's possible to set a keyboard shortcut reference to be no breakable
Example:
As is:
Keyboard shortcuts are shown in menus, contextual menus and by (on Windows) pressing Ctrl+/
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WYSIWYG Image editors for domain-specific QA's?
I think I just had a pretty good idea: could we have domain-specific WYSIWYG editors (like miniature / context specific image editors) for specific Stacks? Here are some uses:
a circuit diagram ...
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